Day: June 27, 2024

President of Cairo University Mohamed Elkhosht said that Cairo University is ranked in a list of the best 300 universities worldwide in US News ranking for 2024.

Elkhosht added Cairo University is ranked in a list of the best 15 universities in the world for the first time ever in the pharmacy specialty.

He said that Cairo University is ranked 271 in Best Global Universities.

The annual US News and World Report Best Global Universities rankings provide insight into how universities compare globally.

Since an increasing number of students enroll in universities outside of their home countries, these rankings – which focus exclusively on institutions’ overall academic research and reputations and not on their separate undergraduate or graduate programs – can help those applicants compare institutions around the world.

The 2024-2025 Best Global Universities rankings also provide insight into how US universities – which US News has been ranking separately for nearly 40 years – stand globally. All universitie
s can benchmark themselves against schools in their own country and region, become more visible to international educators, and find top schools in other countries with which to engage.

The overall ranking encompasses 2,250 top institutions, up from 2,000 in the last ranking, spread across 104 countries, up from 95. The first step in producing these rankings, which are powered by ClarivateS, involved creating a pool of 2,271 universities that was used to rank the top 2,250 schools.

To create the pool of 2,271, US News first included the top 250 universities in the results of Clarivate’s global reputation survey, described below. Next, US News added any other institutions that met the minimum threshold of at least 1,250 papers published from 2018 to 2022. This paper threshold is unchanged from the last ranking. Those two criteria created the final 2024-2025 ranking pool of 2,271 institutions from which U.S. News ranked the top-scoring 2,250 universities in the overall ranking.

As a result of these criteria,
many stand-alone graduate schools, including Rockefeller University in New York and the University of California San Francisco, were eligible to be ranked and were included in the ranking universe.

The second step was to calculate the rankings using the 13 indicators and weights that US News chose to measure global research performance. Each school’s profile page on usnews.com lists its overall global score as well as numerical ranks for the 13 indicators, allowing students to compare each school’s standing in each indicator.

The indicators and their weights in the ranking formula are listed in the table below, with related indicators grouped together; an explanation of each follows.

Source: State Information Service Egypt

The Ministry of Labour has announced securing 3,162 new job opportunities in 45 private companies in 12 governorates, including Cairo, Giza, Qaliobiya and Menofia.

The ministry pointed out in its bi-monthly employment bulletins that applications can be submitted for these jobs as of today until July 30.

The positions include engineers, accountants, secretaries, drivers, security guards, salesmen, among others.

Source: State Information Service Egypt

Amman: The Anti-Cybercrime Unit issued a warning about the risks involved in disclosing the verification code that you obtain through text message to other people for any purpose when carrying out an electronic transaction.

Lt. Col. Mahmoud Al-Maghaira, the head of the Cybercrime Unit, emphasized that electronic wallet codes belong to the wallet owner and should never be shared with anyone or any unofficial organization, regardless of the assurances they may offer.

He clarified that an electronic fraudster could use a deception technique to trick the victim by posing questions about the victim’s line of work and whether the victim has an electronic wallet that allows prizes to be transferred to it. Then, the perpetrator would ask for the victim’s account confirmation code and ask him to give it back to him; at that point, the victim would be a victim of fraud.

He emphasized that the Anti-Cybercrime Unit works in conjunction with the Central Bank of Jordan to alert the public about the dangers of disclosing
personal or financial information. The unit also monitors Internet fraud cases, ascertains the identity of Internet users, and tracks the flow of funds and their beneficiaries.

He stressed the need to confirm the pages and sites being dealt with through contact information, locate the institution, and ensure that the person managing this page is an advertiser whose identity is known.

He also warned of the dangers of sharing information, personal data, national numbers, and bank accounts with fraudulent parties working to create fake sites and pages.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Maj. Gen. Yousef Huneiti, yesterday, visited the Chief of Staff of the Sultan’s Armed Forces in the Sultanate of Oman, and was received upon his arrival by Chief of Staff of the Sultan Armed Forces Lt. Gen. Abdullah bin Khamis Al Raisi.

In the presence of several high-ranking members of the Jordanian military and the Jordanian Military Attaché in Muscat, Huneiti and his Omani counterpart deliberated on various facets of military collaboration and coordinated training in military, operational, and logistical domains. The ultimate goal is to support the armed forces of the two brotherly nations.

In this regard, Hunaiti visited the Omani Maritime Security Center today with the Chief of Staff of the Sultan’s Armed Forces in the Sultanate of Oman. They were greeted by Major General Saif bin Nasser Al-Rahbi, the Chairman of the Maritime Security Committee and Commander of the Royal Navy of Oman.

Seperately, the Secretary-General of the Omani Ministry of Defense awarde
d Huneiti the Oman Military Medal of the Second Degree, which was given by His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, the Sultan of Oman, in appreciation of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s work and his contributions to bolstering the two brotherly nations’ already-existing military cooperation.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Jerusalem – Ma’an – Israeli Channel 13 reported that 4 people were injured as a result of the outbreak of fire in Safed following the fall of missiles launched from Lebanon.

Israeli Channel 12 said that about 20 missiles were detected being launched towards the Upper Galilee, and Israeli air defenses intercepted a number of them.

The channel also reported that 40 rockets were fired towards Safed, and that electricity was cut off in part of the city.

Source: Maan News Agency

Amman: The Jordan Armed Forces – Arab Army (JAF) and the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO) dispatched a fresh convoy of humanitarian aid for Gaza.

Fifty trucks made up the convoy, which was sent out in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP) and funded by donations from various Jordanian organizations and public campaigns.

The trucks delivered rice and necessary food packages to our people in Gaza, which will be given out by regional partner associations and organizations.

As per the direction of His Majesty the King to support our people in Gaza, Jordan is ready to send more convoys and trucks, according to Dr. Hussein Al-Shibli, Secretary-General of the JHCO.

Al-Shibli continued by saying that 53 aircraft and 2,270 land trucks have crossed into the Gaza Strip through Al-Arish.

The Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization is still able to accept financial contributions via a number of methods, including electronic wallets, the Union Bank account number JO32 UBSI 1030 0000 4010 1659 915
1 06, the “CliQ” service with JHCOGAZA, “eFAWATEERcom,” and its website, www.jhco.org.jo.

Source: Jordan News Agency